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| Featured Firefox Extension: Page Saver captures web pages as images |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 10:30 am |
| Tags: Downloads, Featured Firefox Extension, Firefox, Firefox Extensions, Screenshots, Top |
| Firefox only: If you capture screenshots of web pages often and don't want to go through the whole Alt-PrntScrn, Open Paint, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+S routine, the Page Saver Firefox extension's for you. Save the visible portion of a web page or the entire page to an image in one click with Page Saver, which is great for reporting web site bugs or just |
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| Featured Firefox Extension: Speed up and protect your logins with Secure Login |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 4:00 pm |
| Tags: Downloads, Featured Firefox Extension, Firefox, Firefox Extensions, Passwords, Phishing, Privacy, Security, Top |
| (Firefox): The Secure Login Firefox extension adds an extra layer of security to your saved Firefox usernames and passwords. After it's installed, saved login info won't autofill when the page loads (autofilling passwords poses a small security threat); instead, you can either hit the Secure Login button (which you'll need to add |
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| Screenshot Tour: Show Us Your Firefox, Part 4 |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: Customizations, Feature, Firefox, Firefox Extensions, Screenshot Tour, Show Us Yours, Top |
| Once, twice, three times a Firefox, and I loooove you! We finally made it: This is the fourth and final installment of our Show Us Your Firefox series, and this week we've got a smorgasbord of tasty Firefox treats for you. If you don't already get why Firefox is so lovable and cuddly, surely you do now that you've seen what all it can do. Hit the |
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| Featured Firefox Extension: Add pie menu navigation and minimize mouse movement with easyGestures |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 10:30 am |
| Tags: Clips, Downloads, Featured Firefox Extension, Firefox, Firefox Extensions, Mouse, Rsi, Top |
| Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Middle-click your browser window and the easyGestures Firefox extension will display a pie menu with your mouse in the center. The menu gives you access to several commonly-used navigation buttons along with several other interesting options (from bookmark access and application launching to different contextual |
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| Firefox Tip: Fix your 'fox with the standard diagnostic |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 10:30 am |
| Tags: Firefox, Firefox Extensions, Firefox Tip, How To, Repair, Top |
| is, MozillaZine's standard Firefox diagnostic offers a systematic, step-by-step guide to fixing your Firefox. In the end you may have to go as far as setting up an entirely new profile, but either way you'll be sure to have your Firefox back in working order by the end of the diagnostic. To avoid extreme extension hangover in the future, be |
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| Featured Firefox Extension: Stop time-wasting browsing with LeechBlock |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 8:00 am |
| Tags: Distraction, Downloads, Featured Firefox Extension, Firefox, Firefox Extensions, Focus, Top |
| Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): The LeechBlock Firefox extension blocks sets of time-wasting web sites during user-specified time intervals. LeechBlock is a lot like Lifehacker's Invisibility Cloak Greasemonkey script in extension form, offering an easy-to-use graphical user interface for putting together and then blocking your biggest time-wasting |
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| Technophilia: StumbleUpon the best pages on the web |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: Feature, Firefox Extensions, Getting Things Done, Getting To Done, Gtd, Internet Explorer, Productivity, Search, Search Techniques, Social, Social Bookmarking, Social Engineering, Social Networking, Social Search, Tagging, Technophilia, Top |
| or "stumble", the web. Both Firefox and Internet Explorer versions are available here. Use it to find new sites merely by hitting the "stumble!" button; once you find a site you like/dislike, you can give it a thumbs up or thumbs down. Multiply your thumbs up and down with the thousands of other StumbleUpon users, and you've got a whole lot of |
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| Featured Firefox Extension: Add drag-scrolling and momentum flicking with Grab and Drag |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: Downloads, Featured Firefox Extension, Firefox, Firefox Extensions, Mouse |
| Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox/Thunderbird): The Grab and Drag Firefox extension adds grab-and-drag scrolling (like you're used to in PDFs), flick gestures, and momentum scrolling to Firefox (similar to the iPhone's flick-to-scroll). Grab and Drag works with any mouse and can be tweaked to your liking if you're keen on the idea, but it seems |
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| Featured Firefox Extension: Monitor a non-responding web site with Mr. Uptime |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: Downloads, Featured Firefox Extension, Firefox, Firefox Extensions |
| Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Let's say you see a link on Lifehacker to another site that you really want to check out, but the flood of visitors from Lifehacker and other sites has temporarily put the site out of commission. Rather than leaving a dead tab open in Firefox and periodically checking to see if the page is back up, or searching |
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| Featured Firefox Extension: Find coupons for the site you're visiting with Coupon Notifier |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: Downloads, Featured Firefox Extension, Firefox, Firefox Extensions, Saving Money, Shopping, Top |
| Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): The Coupon Notifier Firefox extension monitors what site you're visiting to see if you're shopping at an online store, then automatically lists the latest coupons and special offers available at that merchant. Whenever Coupon Notifier finds offers for the site you're visiting, the Offers statusbar or toolbar button |
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| Featured Firefox Extension: Advanced Dork adds right-click menu Google search operators |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 10:13 am |
| Tags: Featured Firefox Extension, Firefox, Firefox Extensions, Google, Search Techniques |
| All platforms with Firefox: All sorts of search-fu can be done with Google's advanced operators, but who remembers them all? Ditch the cheat sheet for Advanced Dork, a Firefox extension that adds Google operators (like intitle:, site:, maps:, cache:, link:, etc) to Firefox's context menu. Highlight text and search for it using Advanced Dork's |
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| Featured Firefox Extension: Share web text, video, and more with your phone with Joey |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: Cell Phones, Clips, Downloads, Featured Firefox Extension, Firefox, Firefox Extensions, Mobile Apps, Mobile Phones, Sharing |
| Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Firefox extension Joey exports content you're browsing in Firefox to an easily accessible web interface on your mobile phone. We've seen similar tools for getting text from your desktop to your phone through SMS, like Gina's Clipboard2Phone app or Google's Send to Phone Firefox extension, but Joey goes one step |
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| Featured Firefox Extension: Track Browsing Habits and Curb Procrastination with MeeTimer |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 5:00 pm |
| Tags: Distractions, Downloads, Featured Firefox Extension, Firefox, Firefox Extensions, Procrastination, Productivity, Time Tracker, Timer |
| Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Previously mentioned web site time tracking extension MeeTimer has updated with a few new and worthwhile features to help you get serious about your browser productivity. MeeTimer still tracks and groups your browsing habits by categories (with several improvements), but now it also lets you set up deterrence |
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| Featured Firefox Extension: Stop YouTube Ads with TubeStop |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 8:00 pm |
| Tags: Downloads, Featured Firefox Extension, Firefox, Firefox Extensions, Youtube |
| (Firefox): Firefox extension TubeStop disables autoplay on YouTube videos and blocks obtrusive overlay advertisements. Deactivating autoplay will come in handy for anyone who's followed a YouTube link and accidentally blared a video through the workplace, while the incidental overlay ad "blocking" very quickly dispenses with a |
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| Featured Firefox Extension: Track Your IP Address and Router Uptime with Router Status |
| Published: August 28, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: Downloads, Featured Firefox Extension, Firefox, Firefox Extensions, Networking, Router, Top, Wifi, Wireless |
| Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): The Router Status Firefox extension integrates with your router to display your external IP, router uptime, and the load average on your router. Currently this extension only works with DD-WRT, the open source project that turns your $60 router into a $600 router, but support for more routers is planned for future |
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